Incident Date:
May 14, 1986 11:30
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Jakarta Indonesia
Perpetrators: Japanese Red Army Rengo Sekig (JURA - JRA)
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Projectile (rockets, mortars, RPGs))
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Embassies/Consulates)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 3 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/14/1986: Homemade rockets were fired at the U.S. Embassy and the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia at 11:30 a.m. One rocket launcher was recovered from room 827 in the President Hotel, some 277 kilometers from the Japanese Embassy. A second rocket-launcher was found in an amusement park across the road from the U.S. Embassy, where the rocket landed in the courtyard. No damage was reported at either Embassy. At noon, a bomb destroyed a car owned by a Canadian in the parking lot of a building housing the Canadian Embassy. Four other cars were damaged by the blast, which slightly injured three people. In Paris, an anonymous caller to a news agency claimed credit for the three incidents on behalf of the Anti-Imperialist International Brigades, a hitherto unknown group. An investigation indicated that the bombs and launcher had been made in Indonesia. Fingerprints found in room 827 matched those of Tsutomu Shirozaki, a Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorist freed from jail in response to JRA demands during a 09/1977 hijacking of a Japan Air Lines jet forced to land in Bangladesh."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume II 1984-1987. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 397-398."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 179"
3) GTD 1970-2012 data file
4) RAND
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